SUMMARY: Milly-Molly-Mandy helps Billy Blunt to weed the garden and paint some garden implements.
Proving her lack of grammatical control and total social indoctrination, Milly-Molly-Mandy observes in this chapter: "My Muvver says we'd be like apple trees which didn't grow apples if we didn't be useful." This is the first story in which Billy Blunt plays a significant role.